Anddontcallmeshirley - I think you should have included the part of the paragraph you left out in the WT68 quote: "If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes. Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” Why not? Because after his creation Adam lived some time during the “sixth day,” which unknown amount of time would need to be subtracted from Adam’s 930 years, to determine when the sixth seven-thousand-year period or “day” ended, and how long Adam lived into the “seventh day.” And yet the end of that sixth creative “day” could end within the same Gregorian calendar year of Adam’s creation."
While I find the whole paragraph - and others - "most unfortunate" to say the least, this one paragraph wih the missing part included shows that what is to happen or to run out within weeks or months, is the 6,000-year period, and as it says it remains to be seen whether that period will run parallell to the outbreak of Armageddon. So whereas the intention of the paragraph possibly can be read a you point out, one could just as easily state it calls for caution ................